[Soul of Chess] What if

This is the Chinese Chess Academy located in Dongcheng District, Beijing.

This is a four-story building.From the outside, it is not very grand and magnificent, but it is extremely sacred to professional chess players.

The Chinese Chess Academy is the training and competition base for Chinese chess career, and it is the home of professional chess players. The young people who gather here are extremely smart, have a strong sense of victory and defeat, superb chess skills, and have their own personalities. Carefully selected from professional chess players from all over the world, they can be said to be the elite of the elite.

Being selected by the Chess Academy is an affirmation of one's own strength.More importantly, the opponents here are very strong, coupled with the intensive training and competition under semi-military management, it has a considerable effect on the improvement of performance.

In addition to helping to improve one's own chess skills, this place also has extremely special meaning for every chess player.

Unlike the Go Academy in Japan and South Korea, the Chinese Chess Academy has only been established a few years ago. It can be said that it was established with the help of the Sino-Japanese Go Challenge Tournament.

In 1984, China and Japan jointly hosted the NEC China-Japan Go Competition.Before the start of the game, both Japan's "Go Club" and China's "New Sports" magazines asked readers to predict the Sino-Japanese Go Challenge in the form of questionnaires.As a result, whether it is Japanese or Chinese readers, more than 80% of them think that the Japanese side won.

It is inevitable that this will happen.

Although China is the birthplace of Go, in modern times, due to many practical reasons such as wars, Chinese Go has gradually declined, and Japanese Go has come from behind.

At that time, how big was the gap between the level of Go in China and Japan?

In the 60s, although China and Japan had not yet resumed diplomatic relations, under the joint initiative of Marshal Chen Yi, who loves Go, and Mr. Kenzo Matsumura, a famous Japanese politician, China and Japan began to conduct friendly exchanges in Go in 1960.It's just that the previous exchanges all ended with the entire Chinese army being annihilated.Until 1983, although the chess skills had improved, the Chinese side only achieved 25 wins and 31 losses in the Sino-Japanese exchange match, and it was still a situation of more losses than wins.

Therefore, there is no way for Chinese chess players to be underestimated at the beginning of the game.

Unexpectedly, the Chinese team won the first NEC China-Japan Go Challenge.

This result shocked the Japanese Go world.You must know that in the previous several friendly Go matches between China and Japan, all Chinese players ended in disastrous defeats. I did not expect that the Chinese players' chess skills could improve so much in such a short period of time!

The Japanese side originally planned to host the China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament only once, but after this loss, the group arena must continue no matter what, in order to avenge their shame in the next tournament.However, in the second and third group arena, even though there were many dangers, the Chinese team still won the final victory.

So far, China has won three consecutive victories in the Sino-Japanese Go Challenge. Such an achievement can be said to have made contributions to the country in the field of Go.

Since there is no chess academy in China, the call for the establishment of a Chinese chess academy has continued to rise since the fierce battle between China and Japan. Coupled with the promotion of Fang Yi, Zhang Jinfu and other veterans, the country finally decided to establish a Chinese chess academy.

In 1988, the state allocated more than 1800 million yuan and began to break ground. After three long years, in the autumn of 1991, the Chinese Chess Academy was finally completed.

The completion of the Chess Academy not only means that China also has a special place for the chess industry, it is also a symbol of Chinese Go finally getting rid of the backward and beaten status.

After many years, the horn of the group arena sounded again.

In the face of the common battle, the Chinese Go masters are united as one, showing unprecedented cohesion and high morale. Everyone contributes ideas and suggestions for a common goal-to defeat Sai.

It's lunch break now, but there are still many people in the training room of the Chess Academy.If you observe carefully, you will find that everyone is almost divided into two groups, and surrounded in the middle are the main player Wang Xing and the deputy player Hua Songli of the Chinese team of this Nongshim Cup.

It turned out that the teammates of the Chess Academy were training them called "pressurization".

What is pressurization training?

Pressurization training, this word can be easily understood literally, so I won't explain it here.For the specific implementation, let's take the situation of Vice General Hua Songli as an example.

I saw Hua Songli and several chess players sitting on both sides of the chessboard, which also showed that Hua Songli was on one side and several chess players were on the other side in this game.During the game, every time Hua Songli made a move, several chess players would discuss and work out the most appropriate move together, and then place the chess pieces in the discussed positions.

That is to say, Hua Songli's opponent in this game is not a single person, but a group that embodies the wisdom of everyone in Go.

Such an opponent is the most difficult to deal with.

Because Go is played by two people, the side with fewer mistakes is more likely to win.However, a person's ability is limited. No matter how careful he is, there will always be misjudgments due to various reasons during the game. The odds are greatly reduced.

Because after the opponents of pressurization training come up with a countermeasure, different people will observe and think about this move from multiple aspects. They will weigh many countermeasures, and then choose the most appropriate move from them.

Therefore, this game can sharpen people's chess skills and will.After all, during the entire game, not only must there be a strong will, not to be timid because the opponent is too strong, but also have a strong computing power, and can quickly and accurately calculate the opponent's purpose when the chess pieces fall, Find out the opponent's flaws and counterattack accurately.

After the end of the second stage of the Nongshim Cup, Wang Xing and Hua Songli started special training similar to this after holding a review meeting for the group arena, reviewing the game together, and summing up experiences and lessons.

Although the Korean team took the lead in challenging on the first day of the third stage, it is still unclear who will be sent to play at that time, but even if the main player Xu Zhangyuan is sent, it is not certain that he will be able to stop sai's winning streak.And once the main player loses, the remaining players will have no chance of winning.

Therefore, South Korea is very likely to send at least one chess player to test or consume Sai's energy first, adding chips to the victory of the subsequent game.

Since it's just a war of attrition, it is bound to be impossible to successfully intercept Sai, so Wang Xing and the others will definitely confront Sai head-on.

With this in mind, even though the outcome of the first game of the third stage is still unknown, they have entered into full preparation.

The first is to study sai's chess records.After all, if you know yourself and your enemy, you will win every battle~

Wang Xing and the others are now very fortunate that Sai's activities are all fixed on the Internet, and the website of the God of Go happens to have chess records compiled by Sai's fans, so it is not difficult to collect Sai's chess records.If sai is only active in domestic Go games most of the time like most professional players in Japan, it will be difficult.

There are many Go tournaments in Japan, and most of these Go tournaments are organized by news organizations, especially newspaper offices. Several major newspapers in Tokyo have their own Go tournaments: such as the "Chess Holy War" held by "Yomiuri Shimbun", " The "Celebrity Battle" held by the Asahi Shimbun, the "Honinbo Battle" held by the Mainichi Shimbun, and so on.

Although there are so many games, Japanese newspapers only publish the news and game records of the Go games held by themselves, and either do not report other games, or there is only one newsletter at most.In this way, the dissemination channels appear to be much narrower, but there is no way to do this. After all, publishing chess records in Japan is a patent, and other newspapers are not interested in it.

Yang Hai took the initiative to organize the chess records. After all, he is much better than others in the computer field.

In addition to collecting as many chess records as possible, he also preliminarily analyzed Sai's chess playing rules.For example, sai likes to start with a show strategy. If he plays black first, he will almost always play the small eye in the upper right corner first.

There is a saying in the chess proverb that "golden corners and silver edges cover the belly", so most of the chess players first occupy the corners and invade the sides first, and rarely make decisions in the center first. Sai has made this point to the fullest. Many of his Commonly used fixed formulas are also related to small eyes, such as Xiaofei, Jian and so on.

After sorting out Sai's chess records, Wang Xing and Hua Songli began to study Sai's chess.

Although the two people's homes are near the Qiyuan, they both lived in the Qiyuan again in order to concentrate on preparations without being disturbed.

Of course, the Chess Academy also gives the green light to two people. For example, both of them use a room alone. The room is equipped with chessboards, computers and other items. In terms of training, Mr. Li divides the high-level chess players into two groups to fully cooperate with their preparations. , In order to relieve stress, Qiyuan also opened a relaxing place in the basement where you can play table tennis or sing, etc.

However, the time before the game was only used to study chess skills, and they seemed a little nervous. They didn't even care about rest, let alone relax.

Since sai is not only extremely familiar with the past stereotypes, he is also very proficient in new content, so the only way to defeat sai is to create new stereotypes.

While studying the game record, the two of them would keep thinking about ways to deal with it other than conventional methods.Once they come up with a chess move, they will immediately put it on the chessboard and carefully weigh the pros and cons.There is not enough time in the daytime, so they use the night, sometimes they even go to bed in the middle of the night, and when they suddenly think of a change, they will get up again and play repeatedly on the chessboard.

For every idea that pops into their heads, they will put out hundreds of variations to ensure that the strategy is foolproof.

Sometimes they will invite teammates to imitate Sai's style of chess and play against themselves, and conduct training close to the needs of actual combat.

The author has something to say:

Sorry for keeping everyone waiting...(╥﹏╥)

The recent busy work has finally come to an end, and I will try my best to code out three chapters before the end of the weekend, eh!